Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Live to Ride(in peace), Ride to live(in peace)

Well, for the last one year I have not been enjoy riding my bike in the two metro/semi metro cities that I have been living in...

Why?

I dont have Insurance , Road Tax, NOC or a license..

Insurance: I paid on time, they wanna see the bike in tvm.. while it is roaming about in Karnataka and AP and its in no mood to go back. Its in love with the pretty Scooty Peps here..

Road Tax: All these idiots have only life time taxes, for the one year or less we'll be here.. and that will set us back by about 5k, as opposed to 100 bucks or so for each encounter of the third kind with the cops.

NOC: Tedious process, which I never intended to undergo. My bike is basically a mallu at heart. I cant imagine my bike being a canadian (kannadiga) or telegana..

License: I do have a license. Not just on me. I managed to forget to get it back from a constable, when I was caught by police near charminar about 3 months back. I realized that I had lost it about a month back. Now a duplicate is in the works back in mallu land, and since nothing works there even with some bribes.. I am still waiting..

Summary
If I manage to lose my RC book, I can be 100% illegal. Yippeee..

Remedy.
Since I have been victimized by a company initiated transfer to Hyderabad from Bangalore, I will recieve those small perks associated with transfers of the forced kind. In short, I can pay my road tax and get it reimbursed. So what I need to do is get an NOC and then somehow manage to pay the road tax here. Easier said than done, as NOC would require me cum all the documents present back in mallu land. Now that does not seem that probable, hence I need to courier the papers and optimally myself there and get the work done. Then I can pay the tax here. And if and only if I manage to pull off that feat would I be able to get someone else to renew my insurance from here from last year even though I have actually paid for this year too.

Red Tape. And not the shoe kind..

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm i took noc .. the process needs the bike back in mallu land..
they take a etch of the engine n chasis number...
hmmm i took noc and took my babe to chennai... 1 year later .. now i am in bangalore with my girl back in vhennai...
i am sending my noc back home for cancelling and re-applying with karnataka permit..
lets see .. hope i get it soon ..
missing my babe sooo much :((

Ashwin Raju said...

My NOC is in the works.. :(
hope to get it soon..